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Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in gold. The other drinks the greenness of the field with his eye, and kisses every blade with his thought, and fraternizes in his soul with every rootlet and pebble, and every clod of earth.

Mikhail Naimy

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Mikhail Naimy
Age: 98 †
Born: 1889
Born: January 1
Died: 1988
Died: January 1
Author
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Mikha'il Nu'aima
Mikha'il Na'ima
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Men
Looking
Silver
Pebble
Eye
Price
Pebbles
Money
Kissing
Blade
Two
Field
Kisses
Bushels
Thought
Green
Drinks
Greenness
Earth
Gold
Calculates
Soul
Fields
Blades
Clod
Every
Drink
Yield

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